ABEYANT Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

abeyant

adjective

Definition of abeyant

as in latent

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Adjective

Despite the tensions brought up by the elections, there was a latent sense of camaraderie and hope at the festival in the days since the first round at the polls.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
Leadership turmoil and a weakened state, as seen with the enfeebled late Ming, could well fuse with latent social tensions to produce an existential crisis.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of latent

Adjective

Of the 200 records the county staff reviewed, 112 were associated with people whose registrations are canceled or inactive.

— Miles Parks, NPR, 21 Oct. 2026
The office found that more than half — 112 — had been canceled or were inactive, meaning no ballot was sent to those voters.

— Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of inactive

Adjective

If there were any more life to the filmmaking, this tension could least be interesting, but the results are both perky and inert, unreal but entirely unmoored in time and space.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
Plastic has long been considered chemically inert, but in a new lab study, tiny plastic particles in water spontaneously produced highly reactive molecules.

— Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of inert

Adjective

The issues may have been lying dormant The vulnerabilities have been known about since at least 2024, according to the PHP Foundation.

— Kaitlyn Huamani, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
So Hanawalt reactivated her dormant Facebook account and began scrolling through local horse sale groups.

— Rachel Brodsky, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of dormant

Adjective

Among the biggest changes in the country have to do with changes to corporate governance, including the encouragement of companies to eliminate idle cash and focus more on shareholder returns, that's meant to support growth.

— Sarah Min, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
Supply-chain congestion sometimes causes freight trains to sit idle, leaving them vulnerable to thieves in urban rail yards.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of idle

Adjective

An unused two-door reach-in cooler turned into a roach cemetery, with 17 dead bodies inside and three in the drain pan underneath.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Becerra’s origin story traces back to his youth in Sacramento, and a moment when a high school friend was about to throw out a blank, unused application to Stanford University.

— Ben Wieder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of unused

Adjective

The television ad begins with a dark video of an empty swing and the faint sound of children’s voices in the background, then shifts to footage of vacant pews inside a church.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2026
The presidency in this Caribbean nation of 12 million has been vacant since the 2021 assassination of Jovenel Moïse.

— Widlore Mérancourt, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of vacant

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